The Grahams Sell The Washington Post and Woodward Is Sad

If Hell froze over, pigs took wing, sheep fell from the sky, and snow blanketed Hawaii, it still wouldn&rsquo;t be as astonishing as Monday&rsquo;s announcement that the storied Graham family is selling The Washington Post to a billionaire online-retailing entrepreneur.

Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey Bezos, whose net worth has been estimated at $28 billion, has agreed to pay $250 million in cash to take possession of the 136-year-old newspaper and several related media properties within 60 days. Bezos&rsquo;s acquisition is personal, not corporate, so The Post will once again be a private entity&mdash;something it hasn&rsquo;t been since the Grahams took the company public in 1971.